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Puppetry &
Costume Design

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In addition to his performance puppetry, Chip has a small portfolio of puppetry and costume design.  Starting with his assisting of Brad Williams in designing and building human-sized creature costumes and puppets for the 5-year Hope Summer Repertory Theatre/Hope College Theatre joint production of E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker.  From there he gained more experience on his own.
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This puppet character was created for an inner city Flint, Michigan church group.

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This is a puppetry design for the character of Sister Mary Annette from a community theatre production of the musical Nunsense.

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I designed this costume for my father for his yacht club denaming ceremonies
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This puppet was created for a grant from planned parenthood for a youth outreach program, to provide instruction for young ones about domestic violence.

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This character was also created for the Planned Parenthood outreach program.
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The character of Sparks the dog was also created for the Planned Parenthood grant, and featured a puppet with live hands, able to grasp things.
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This two-person camel costume (with one person behind operating the driver,) was created for a community theatre production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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Chip designed and built this chef jacket for his character of Vinnie Black "The Cadillac Of Caterers" in the Detroit production of Tony and Tina's Wedding.  As well as the robe worn during the "Champagne March" which features a Caesar's Palace robe with embroidery on the back.
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